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Future of this blog – First Thoughts

I agree the blog is becoming a useful resource. I think the idea of allowing other authors to advertise releases is also a good idea. My initial preference would be to accept articles for posting in the New Software Releases category. We then review the posts before making the post ourselves. By default I think [...]

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Future of this Blog?

Since we first setup this blog we’ve been posting quite a lot. I believe its becoming a valuable resource. Where should we go from here. At http://www.softtester.com we send out emails to authors when they add / update new software to our directory. Previously we had a section in the email about our forum. It [...]

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Internationalization

When you first start writing DotNet applications, you quite impressed to learn that MS has provided features / tools to make it possible to internationalize your application. Which is true, but once you have finished your application you´re still left with some problems. Before I go into those, I´ll run through the things you need [...]

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Who is winning the game?

Who is winning the game? Post by axsaxs on Feb 18th, 2004, 10:23am Some considerations. a. This is the top ten of the most downloaded programs (source: download.com) 1. Kazaa Media Desktop 2. Ad-aware 3. ICQ Lite 4. iMesh 5. WinZip 6. Spybot – Search & Destroy 7. Morpheus 8. ICQ Pro 2003b 9. AOL [...]

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Software Author Help Sites

Euro Share – http://www.euro-share.com This is a long running discussion group which talks about shareware authoring. They’ve also got a searchable archive. Software Marketing Resource – http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/software-marketing-resource.html This site provides lots of links to other sites. It’s seems to have quite a good selection, I’m still looking through it Have fun making great looking masks [...]

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Anti-Crack Help

Richey’s DELPHI-BOX: Anti-Crack page – http://www.inner-smile.com/nocrack.phtml Although this site is primarily aimed at Delphi developers, it does bring up some extremely valuable points. After reading it you will be quite shocked, you’ll want to try and implement most of it. Don’t as it will take forever, don’t get carried away. For sale, Kids Maths Software [...]

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BetaNews.com

http://www.betanews.com This is a great site for announcements of beta releases and general software news. All the big software companies use it. High quality fashion jewellery at a reasonable price! by JM

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My Ideaspad Testplan

I thought I’d post my Ideaspad Test Plan. Someone may find it useful. It may spark a discussion? 1 Clear PC from previous installations / tests uninstall etc. Anything odd left behind? 2 NB: Through out testing, please turn you speakers on. If you notice an error beep in a funny place please make a [...]

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Cost is not the only measure of value

My feeling is that, in general, most people realise that if they want to buy a product that they will use again and again – perhaps for years – cost isn’t really a deciding factor. More than one customer has told me this. As stated in an earlier post, I think writing a non-trivial, valuable [...]

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How do you figure out what to charge for your Software products?

This posting was originally from our forum. motherswan How do you figure out what to charge for your products? I have experimented with pricing but have not reached any level of confidence that my prices make sense. There is such a wide range of competing products on the market with varying prices, including free, and [...]

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